American semiconductor maker Texas Instruments (TI) is spending $60bn on seven manufacturing plants on three sites – two in Texas, and one in Utah – which it says will create…

Belgian pharmaceutical company UCB says it plans to invest $5bn in a US factory to avoid President Trump’s tariffs on the EU. It makes drugs to treat diseases of the…

Volvo Construction Equipment will spend just over $260m expanding its capacity to make crawler excavators in South Korea, Sweden and the US to make the factories more self-sufficient and less…

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (SCMC) is to build its first European research, development and design centre near Munich, the Taipei Times reports. The company said the facility would improve…

UK construction tech company Automated Architecture (Auar) has secured £5.1m in new funding to commercialise its robotic “pop-up micro-factory” system, in which a robotic arm equipped with machine vision and…

US vehicle manufacturer General Motors says it will spend $888m on a plant to make V-8 engines in Tonawanda, near Buffalo in New York State. It’s the company’s biggest single…

South Korea’s Hyundai Construction Equipment has opened its new “mother plant” in Dong-gu, Ulsan after a $150m modernisation. The new factory combines two existing plants into one 235,000-sq-m facility that…

South Korean conglomerate LG has announced plans to build its third manufacturing plant in India. This will be a $600m, 247-acre project located in Sri City in the state of…

The Danish pharmaceutical company behind obesity drug Wegovy, Novo Nordisk, plans to invest US$1.09bn in expanding its facility in Minas Gerais, southeast Brazil. The 74,000-sq-m project will be used for…

South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai says it will spend $21bn in the US between now and 2028 to boost in-country vehicle production, localise supply chains, and improve its energy infrastructure.…

Nigeria’s Kebbi State has signed a preliminary agreement with Nigerian conglomerate MSM to build a factory capable of producing 3 million tonnes of cement a year, equal to about 5%…

China’s biggest construction equipment maker has announced plans to build a 35,000 sq m smart factory making scissor and boom lifts in Hungary. Zoomlion signed a 10-year lease with Dutch…

Six investors have signed service level agreements with the Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) and are spending $160m in the construction factories at the Bole Lemi Special Economic Zone, the…

Ground has been broken on a teaching facility for advanced manufacturing, designed for the University of Maine by UK architect Grimshaw in association with engineers SMRT of Singapore and the…

Work on company’s first manufacturing site in Brazil shut down; Contract with Jinjiang Construction Brazil terminated. Brazilian authorities have rescued 163 Chinese workers being held in “conditions analogous to slavery”…

The US Department of Defence (DOD) has included Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) to its list of “Chinese military companies”. The move will prevent the company from fulfilling…

German consultant Drees & Sommer has described how it is steering a €650m conversion of BMW’s main factory in Munich to prepare it for producing cars with electric-only drive systems…

Taiwanese chipmaker Foxconn plans to build one of the world’s largest assembly plants for US tech company Nvidia in Guadalajara, Mexico, Reuters reports.  The plant will bundle Nvidia’s GB200 superchips…